CVE-2012-2101

Summary

Openstack Compute (Nova) Folsom, 2012.1, and 2011.3 does not limit the number of security group rules, which allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to cause a denial of service (CPU and hard drive consumption) via a network request that triggers a large number of iptables rules.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d210557b1254f7c7b39424b09a45329ade7
• http://www.osvdb.org/81641
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75243
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079434.html
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079551.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49048
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49034

References

• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/1f644d210557b1254f7c7b39424b09a45329ade7
• http://www.osvdb.org/81641
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/8c8735a73afb16d5856f0aa6088e9ae406c52beb
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1438-1
• https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg10268.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75243
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079434.html
• https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/a67db4586f70ed881d65e80035b2a25be195ce64
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079551.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49048
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969545
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49034

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